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- Megan, selected from Experience Life
- April 23, 2012
- 5:05 pm
- 169 comments
If there was one sound that rose above all others at the grocery checkout line last year, it was this: Ouch! When your grocery budget is under assault, it’s easy to succumb to panic (“Nine dollars a pound for organic chicken?!”) and become tempted to fill your cart with less healthy, but ostensibly cheaper, fare. Trouble is, downgrading the quality of your food is never a bargain. First, your health is just too valuable, and courting an avoidable health condition or lowered immunity by eating poorly is just way too expensive. Second, even in the toughest economic times, you don’t have to scrimp on the good stuff. You just have to know how to shop smarter.
Make these 18 easy food swaps, and go from spendy to savvy.
- Boxed cold cereal …Bulk or bagged whole-grain flakes or makings for homemade granola
- Boxed, pouched or canned ready-meals …Bulk or dry-bagged quick-cooking staples (beans, lentils, rice, etc.)
- Bottled water, juice and soda …Filtered tap water flavored with a splash, squeeze or slice of citrus
- Extra-virgin olive oil in pretty glass bottles …Extra-virgin olive oil in big tin jugs and decanted at home
- Honey in fancy glass jars …Bulk honey or local honey from the farmers’ market
- Bagged salad mixes …Whole bunches of greens or bulk field greens
Megan, selected from Experience Life
Experience Life magazine is an award-winning health and fitness publication that aims to empower people to live their best, most authentic lives, and challenges the conventions of hype, gimmicks and superficiality in favor of a discerning, whole-person perspective. Visit experiencelife.com to learn more and to sign up for the Experience Life newsletter, or to subscribe to the print or digital version.
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Thanks for this.
ty
Interesting read, not sure I agree with this though.
So cute!
a good start--perhaps he'll follow Puerto Rico's example?
169 comments
+ add your ownGreat ideas, thanks!
Already do this but great ideas. Buying in bulk certainly helps.
love it. all great tips. a few i wouldnt do... but most "swaps" are healthier too!
Take home: Buy bulk. Everyone already knows that. Much of it goes to waste(stale) before being used. I use coupons and buy on sale.
thanks
Thanking you, a lot of common cents here.
Thanks
ty
For several of these, we have a different definition of easy. Many of these swaps would significantly increase the amount of time and effort needed, which isn't necessarily a savings.
You keep me digging for chips.
GloSnifer.
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